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Poll Question: Which album do you like the most
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    Posted: July 24 2019 at 14:24
Two albums released in 1973, two bands that played a mix of original song mixed with covers or renditions of others. Being it Jerusalem or Fathe of Day/ Father of Night. Both bands had magnicent keyboarders, stellar singing and a driving bear/beat/beat fruit.

So which do you Solar most to in your Salad
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Brain Salad Surgery, but both albums are 5 stars in my book.
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both
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Like BSS,but love Solar Fire.
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2nd best album of the Earth Band, who will always have a special place in my heart because they started it all for me.


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Man's fine, but theres only one ELP and BSS is at or near the top of their impressive heap. This isn't even a question for me.
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Toccata slays all..  enough said and the .. vast difference between 2 otherwise very good albums.
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BSS easy 
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Originally posted by Fischman Fischman wrote:

Man's fine, but theres only one ELP and BSS is at or near the top of their impressive heap. This isn't even a question for me.

Same
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Solar Fire is a fine album, I love it, but BSS goes above and beyond.
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Well BSS beats everything as it's my favourite album.

Toccata is a totally insane track. KE9 is 29 minutes of bravado sticking a middle finger up to the rest of the prog fraternity. Bold, brash, arrogant and just a tiny moment from careering off the rails and taking out a whole town. Careful , measured and looking over their shoulder were things that were never said about ELP.

Manfred Mann's moment came with the glorious cover of Blinded by The Light imo.
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ELP on this one.

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Strange choice of albums to compare.

BSS is technically mind blowing, but it wouldn't bother me if I never heard it again. I enjoy Solar Fire more, so it gets the vote. Neither album is the best by either band IMO.
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Solar Fire - Mannfred Manns Earth Band     by far
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Originally posted by The Dark Elf The Dark Elf wrote:

Seven virgins on a mule.
 
sounds like a night out with micky.
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Originally posted by Icarium Icarium wrote:

Two albums released in 1973, two bands that played a mix of original song mixed with covers or renditions of others. Being it Jerusalem or Fathe of Day/ Father of Night. Both bands had magnicent keyboarders, stellar singing and a driving bear/beat/beat fruit.

So which do you Solar most to in your Salad
 
What is "a driving bear/beat/beat fruit"?
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Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:

Toccata is a totally insane track. KE9 is 29 minutes of bravado sticking a middle finger up to the rest of the prog fraternity. Bold, brash, arrogant and just a tiny moment from careering off the rails and taking out a whole town. Careful , measured and looking over their shoulder were things that were never said about ELP.
 
Can't disagree with that, although Toccata is far better (and crazier) on WBMFTTSTNE - how they ever managed to perform that live I will never know.
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There's 'magnificent keyboarders'...and then there's Keith. There's 'stellar singing'...and then there's Greg. There's whatever a 'driving bear/beat/beat fruit' is...and then there's Carl.

ELP for me, please.
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BSS for me
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